Torture & ill-treatment

Torture & ill-treatment

Despite some limited and much publicized steps by the Uzbekistani authorities in recent years to address human rights concerns, monitoring carried out by International...

“I want justice. A sniper bullet damaged my optic nerve. Later - in pretrial detention, I was beaten so severely over the head that...

In January 2022, thousands of people gathered across Kazakhstan demanding social and political change in predominantly peaceful protests. In response to that, President Kassym-Jomart...

This week Charles Michel, President of the European Council, will attend a high-level meeting with the heads of the Central Asian States, which will...

For the 87 th pre-sessional working group meeting of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), partners IPHR, Nota Bene...

The NGO Coalition of Kazakhstan against Torture, International Partnership for Human Rights, and the World Organization Against Torture submitted a report ahead of the...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA) have submitted a joint report for the UN Universal Periodic...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR) have submitted a joint report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is visiting Uzbekistan on 13-15 March 2023. Prior to his visit, Association for Human Rights in...

A new human rights-focused dialogue between the EU and Kazakhstan’s government is scheduled to take place in Brussels on 9 March 2023. The dialogue...